Religious Right's Ralph Reed Field-Tests Plan for Beating Obama

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http://www.alternet.org/election2012/156141/religious_right%27s_ralph_reed_field-tests_plan_for_beating_obama/

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A mere 10 days since Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Lieutenant Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch survived the recall election launched against them by state's liberal coalition, Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, is ebullient as he takes the stage at his organization's Washington, D.C., gala on the final night of FFC's national conference at the Renaissance Hotel.

Reed has good reason to be happy; his return to the religious-right spotlight is a turn of events that few would have bet on. He first burst on the political scene in the 1990s as the wunderkind executive director of Rev. Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition. Then Reed's career soared when George W. Bush signed him as a strategist for his 2000 campaign, only to crash with revelations of his involvement in the Jack Abramoff scandal. Along the way, he made a lot of money, and is reported to live with his wife and two of his four children (the other two are grown) in a house in Duluth, Ga., worth $2.2 million.

The boyish contours of his face now marked with the occasional line, Reed, at 51, still conveys a youthful vigor, fit and trim in a well-tailored dark suit, with his full head of hair brushed neatly back to display a smooth forehead. Taking no small measure of credit for the triumph of Walker and Kleefisch, Reed boasts of the 600,000 voter contacts he says his organization made to get conservative Wisconsinites to the polls on June 5. Later that evening, Reed will present to Kleefisch, who is billed as Wisconsin's answer to Sarah Palin, FFC's Courage in Leadership Award. (Kleefisch will also accept the same award for Walker, who did not attend.)

If you like what happened in Wisconsin, Reed implies, you're going to love the 2012 presidential race, when FFC reaches out to 27.1 million conservative voters; he promises that FFC will contact each of them between seven to 12 times to either get them to the polls, or better yet, vote early in states that permit it. Consider it payback, if you will, for the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.

[Deep13]

1. Sometimes, one can judge a book by its cover.

Reed looks, sounds, and somehow feels like a monster. I hate him.

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2. I can't stomach him either. Nt

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3. Reptile.

Just like Gary Bauer. Reptilian eyes.

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4. one evil fuck

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5. Whenever Ralph Reed is on TV, this is exactly what I see:

Seriously-

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6. "The boyish contours of his face now marked with the occasional line, Reed, at 51..."

Jumped the gun, went too damn far with the plastic surgery. I remember when you were cute... then the ugliness of your soul came out to the surface.

What did you call yourself that night? I don't remember. It was 23 years ago, and I was gorgeous too. I have a box of tapes from Badlands that you and a lot of your Republican't friends don't want to have going over... they taped everything on the dance floor, and the DJ gave me the VHS tapes (for God knows what reason).

You're still going to have to pay for your sex in DC Ralph. You looka like a freak, and most boys don't like that.